This November, The Walt Disney Family Museum presents a special sensory-friendly film screening of Sleeping Beauty (1959). To make this film a comfortable experience for all, lights will be dimmed instead of off, volume will be slightly lowered, and closed captioning will be turned on. Guests are...
Join us in celebrating our newest special exhibition, Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle, with a special month-long screening of Sleeping Beauty (1959). In this beloved adaptation of the classic fairytale, Earle’s unique style of background illustration and color design is on display. Don’t...
When creating theme parks, designers and architects apply their creative minds and technical ingenuity to design ambitious projects. Students will plan their own innovative theme parks using creative thinking, problem solving, and teamwork. They will create their theme park’s rides, shows, food...
Walt Disney knew that at the heart of every animated film is a well-told story. Join us on this School Experience as we investigate the basics of narrative structure, establishing interesting and dynamic plots, and creating internal and external challenges that can impact a character’s journey. Students will then develop their own short story.
The Walt Disney Studios pioneered storyboarding—an innovative way to convey an artist’s vision and the film’s story for those around them. Join us in this School Experience as we delve into timing, camera angles, camera shots, and how to plan out a visual project in a sequential and visual form. Students will then take on the role of a storyboard artist as they envision their own version of a scene from a script.
Walt Disney experimented with different mediums in his animated films. From watercolor to pointillism, the possibilities were endless and gave each movie a signature look. Join us as we create fun and unique art pieces using Pointillism, a painting technique involving small dots, patterns, and colored paints. Students will learn about Impressionism and gain a basic understanding of color filling, shading, and tints to create a cohesive art piece.
The way we travel around the world—in trains, cars, planes, and rockets—has evolved over the past century as new innovations have developed. Join us as we explore various modes of transportation and its importance to Walt Disney, then using colors, shapes, and design basics, students will create...
Visit The Walt Disney Family Museum without ever leaving home! Benefitting from embedded digital media content, this virtual walkthrough of the museum galleries will bring Walt’s inspirational message to life. Students learn about his early failures, the art of animation, storytelling principles...
The Ink and Paint Department was an invaluable part of the animation process, especially with the addition of color to animated films. In this School Experience, students will learn about the relationship between colors, and how color theory utilizes both art and science in color mixing to achieve a particular visual effect.
Walt Disney was a storyteller whose characters captivated audiences through their unique personalities and distinct designs. Students will learn the fundamentals of character design through the use of shape language, silhouette, and personality traits, and uncover the creative process towards developing unique and memorable characters.
Background design is an important part of the storytelling process as it helps give context to the narrative by showing the world in which the characters live. Although not the main focus, backgrounds can amplify and fully immerse an audience. We will discuss industry-standard practices as students delve into perspective fundamentals. Students gain an understanding of overlap, depth, and atmospheric perspective, then apply these concepts to design a layered background.
Eyvind Earle’s love for nature is not only apparent in his work on Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959)—it can be found in his personal works as well! He created whimsical winter landscapes, ranging from snowy trees in Yosemite to frosted buildings in Central Park. In honor of Eyvind Earle’s love...
Eyvind Earle’s love for nature is not only apparent in his work on Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959)—it can be found in his personal works as well! He created whimsical winter landscapes, ranging from snowy trees in Yosemite to frosted buildings in Central Park. In honor of Eyvind Earle’s love...
Before flips books, stop-motion films, and computer animated movies, zoetropes were created as a form of animation technology from the early 1800s. A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion through a sequence of drawings. In this workshop, students will learn about the early forms...
As Walt Disney pushed the boundaries of animated feature films, his team developed techniques and technology that further enhanced their films. One of these devices was the multiplane camera. This amazing piece of equipment is a large movie camera that photographs multiple layers of artwork stacked...
Immerse yourself in the lush landscapes and enchanting illustrations of Eyvind Earle in this special exhibition featuring original art from Disney classics such as Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Lady and the Tramp (1955). In addition to Earle’s dynamic personal work, discover Earle’s distinctive style and interpretation of iconic American landscapes as a fine artist and printmaker.
The Walt Disney Family Museum continues its celebration of the 70th anniversary of Disneyland with the debut of Happiest Place on Earth: The Disneyland Story, an original special exhibition curated by award-winning producer and Disney Legend Don Hahn with museum Director of Collections and...
In November, we celebrate the importance of family with holidays including Día de los Muertos and Thanksgiving. For this month’s Perfect Pairing, we will be screening Disney and Pixar’s Coco (2017), a film about a young boy finding balance between following his dreams of becoming a musician and...
Storytelling is a centuries-old human tradition and the ability to effectively tell stories through visual and written media is a powerful asset. This course is intended for students interested in learning how to develop both visual and written forms of storytelling and how to incorporate them both...
